Rough Trade 25 Years [Import]

Product Description
Budget-priced four disc box released to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Rough Trade shop in London. A joint release from two of England's biggest & best indie labels ever, Rough Trade and Mute, it contains 56 tracks from all of the top acts signed to these two or that have recorded for them, including The Smiths, Pixies, Cocteau Twins, Chemical Brothers, Mazzy Star, Stereolab, Talking Heads, Sonic Youth, Buzzcocks, Joy Division, Mudhoney, Lemonheads, The Sugarcubes, Pere Ubu, Cabaret Voltaire, Spacemen 3, Scritti Politti, Einsturzende Neubaten, The Fall, The Go-Betweens, The Birthday Party, Crass, Stiff Little Fingers, Coil, The Chills and dozens more!

Tracks:

30 Seconds Over Tokyo - Pere Ubu
Boredom - Buzzcocks
Fisherman - The Congos
Nag Nag Nag - Cabaret Voltaire
T.V.O.D. - The Normal
Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers
United - Throbbing Gristle
Ambition - Subway Sect
Part Time Punks - Television Personalities
Fairytale In The Supermarket - The Raincoats
Reality Asylum - Crass
Transmission - Joy Division
People Say - The Go-Betweens
Let's Build A Car - Swell Maps
Final Day - Young Marble Giants
How I Wrote 'Elastic Man' - The Fall
Mr Clarinet - The Birthday Party

Tracks:

There Goes Concorde Again - ...And The Native Hipsters
The Sweetest Girl - Scritti Politti
Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt
Gums Bleed - Foetus
Hand In Glove - The Smiths
Sugar Hiccup - Cocteau Twins
Krieg In Den Stadten - Einsturzende Neubauten
Tupelo - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads
Death Valley '69 - Sonic Youth
Hard Left - Tackhead
Jungle - Lee 'Scratch' Perry And Dub Syndicate
Birthday - The Sugarcubes

Tracks:

Bone Machine - Pixies
Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney
Revolution - Spacemen 3
Different Drum - Lemonheads
Further Back And Faster - Coil
The Light That Will Cease To Fail - Stereolab
Her Jazz - Huggy Bear
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
Song To The Siren - The Chemical Brothers
Pink Frost - The Chills
Soaky In The Pooper - Lambchop
Sciew Spoc - Gescom
Plastique (Video Mix) - Plastikman
Gak 4 - Gak

Tracks:

Gam Jullandar Shere - Cornershop
Presha III - Studio Pressure
Everything You Do Is A Baloon - Boards Of Canada
Flashlegs (Suite) - Echoboy
As The Rain (Adrian Sherwood On-U Sound Remix) - Jeb Loy Nichols
Monkey On Your Back - Clinic
Hot Topic - Le Tigre
To You - I Am Kloot
In The Bath - Lemon Jelly
Fuck The Pain Away - Peaches
My Winding Wheel - Ryan Adams
Talk To Me (91 Versions) - Tindersticks

Album Description

Budget-priced four disc box released to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Rough Trade shop in London. A joint release from two of England's biggest & best indie labels ever, Rough Trade and Mute, it contains 56 tracks from all of the top acts signed to these two or that have recorded for them, including The Smiths, Pixies, Cocteau Twins, Chemical Brothers, Mazzy Star, Stereolab, Talking Heads, Sonic Youth, Buzzcocks, Joy Division, Mudhoney, Lemonheads, The Sugarcubes, Pere Ubu, Cabaret Voltaire, Spacemen 3, Scritti Politti, Einsturzende Neubaten, The Fall, The Go-Betweens, The Birthday Party, Crass, Stiff Little Fingers, Coil, The Chills and dozens more!

Album Details

Mute is Releasing this Four CD Box Set to Celebrate 25 Years of the Rough Trade Shop in London. Includes 56 Tracks and Includes the Likes of Buzzcocks, Cabaret Voltaire, Stiff Little Fingers, Mudhoney, Spacemen 3, Coil, Stereolab, Huggy Bear, Mazzy Star &much More.

Customer Reviews:

Sounds from the streets ........2001-03-17

Rough Trade is a legendary independant record shop based in London that has always been able to supply the clued up record collector with the latest cutting edge singles .

The cultural significence of this shop is immense as it has always fanned the flames for new musical directions whether this was punk , or cool Jamaican roots reggae in the seventies , or the cutting edge sounds of today .

Tracks:

30 Seconds Over Tokyo - Pere Ubu
Boredom - Buzzcocks
Fisherman - The Congos
Nag Nag Nag
T.V.O.D. - The Normal
Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers
United - Throbbing Gristle
Ambition - Subway Sect
Part Time Punks - Television Personalities
Fairytale in the Supermarket
Reality Asylum - Crass
Transmission - Joy Division
People Say - The Go-Betweens
Let's Build a Car - Swell Maps
Final Day - Young Marble Giants
How I Wrote Elastic Man - The Fall
Mr. Clarinet - The Birthday Party

Tracks:

There Goes Concorde Again - ...And the Native Hipsters
Sweetest Girl - Scritti Politti
Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt
Cums Bleed
Hand in Glove - The Smiths
Sugar Hiccup - Cocteau Twins
Krieg in Den Stadten
Tupelo - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads
Death Valley '69 - Lydia Lunch, Sonic Youth,
Hard Left - Tackhead
Jungle - Dub Syndicate, Lee "Scratch" Perry
Birthday - The Sugarcubes

Tracks:

Bone Machine - Pixies
Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney
Revolution - Spacemen 3
Different Dru - The Lemonheads
Furthur Back and Faster
Light That Will Cease to Fail - Stereolab
Her Jazz - Huggy Bear
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
Song to the Siren - The Chemical Brothers
Pink Frost - The Chills
Soaky in the Pooper - Lambchop
Sciew Spic - Gescom
Plastique [Video Mix] - Plastikman
Gak 4

Tracks:

6 A.M. Jullandar Shere - Cornershop
Presha III - Studio Pressure
Everything You Do Is a Balloon - Boards of Canada
Flashlegs (Suite) - Echoboy
As the Rain [Adrian Sherwood on-U Sound Remix] - Jeb Loy Nichols
Monkey on Your Back - Clinic
Hot Topic - Le Tigre
To You - I Am Kloot
In the Bath - Lemon Jelly
Fuck the Pain Away - Peaches
My Winding Wheel - Ryan Adams
Talk to Me [91 Version] - Tindersticks

Amazon.com

The very idea of a "Greatest Hits" of Rough Trade (the store, not the label)--the very indiest of all of London's independent record shops--should have seemed, in theory, about as risible as the compiling of a Led Zeppelin singles collection. In practice, though, this anniversary compilation is nigh on essential. After 25 years of catering to London's most clued-up punters, Rough Trade has achieved a respectable legacy of eclecticism; while other lesser independent record shops have tended more toward the traditional, guitar-led music that's come to epitomize modern indie, this compilation offers a laudably impressive scope, collecting together a number of the chain's most popular sellers and sequencing them in a loosely chronological order. It certainly throws up some interesting juxtapositions: the caustic riot grrrl of Huggy Bear's "Her Jazz" rubbing up against futuristic avant-pop of Stereolab's "The Light That Will Cease to Fail"; the super-political anarcho-punk of Crass's "Reality Asylum" mere moments from the twee jangle pop of the Raincoats' "Fairytale in the Supermarket"; or the cobwebbed dub of Lee "Scratch" Perry's "Jungle" that's a massive cultural leap from the loopy Icelandic pop explosion of the Sugarcubes' "Birthday." Taking risks, but seldom putting a foot wrong--really, it doesn't matter if you've ever browsed the rack of Rough Trade, as this compilation is as good an alternative pop encyclopedia as you're likely to find. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews:

a good starting point.......2001-06-25

Obviously with a compilation that covers so many musical epochs and genres there is going to be a lot of material you don't like. Indeed there are quite a few of the 56 songs here that I just don't care for, but there are just as many songs on here that I love that have introduced me to some artists that I mightn't have otherwise heard: Spacemen 3, Pere Ubu, Cabaret Voltaire, The Chills etc; this 4 disc set is like meeting someone with a great punk and indie record collection and having them play a whole bunch of stuff for you. Some of it you might have heard before, but there'll always be some songs that passed you by that you'll want to own. Don't be put off by the price either, for four discs of such classic music it's well worth the admission fee.

Now that's what I call eclectic!.......2001-05-11

This is interesting - I think it must represent what Rough Trade had on their shelves at some time in the last 25 years (Has it been that long?) An interesting selection, though by know means a great one. Worth the cost of entry is 'Final Day' by Young Marble Giants, which I hadn't heard in 19 years (and it's still splendid)and the Television Personalities 'Part time Punks', neither of which, I'm almost certain, ever appeared on CD before. At the other end of the scale, Einsturzende Neubaten sound characteristically like a group of drunks trying to get home from the pub through a scrapyard, and the female lead of ...And The Native Hipsters has the most annoying voice of any human being in history. (I feel like sueing the group for the four minutes of my life that they claimed from me). For the rest, although there's a lot of filler in there, there should be something that everyone will like. Good luck, Rough Trade, I hope I'm around for the 50th Anniversary compilation. It's just a big pity you had to put the Native Hipsters on there.

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